Zahl der Todesopfer im italienischen Kolonialreich
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Zahl der Todesopfer im italienischen Kolonialreich
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Libya was always very unpopulated, so as a percentage of the population, the impact of colonialism has probably been more serious there than in Abyssinia.
This is part of a series of death tolls of various colonial empires. This is the first.
Sources:
Italian Libya: Shillington, Kevin (2018). History of Africa. London: Bloomsbury, Ahmida, Ali Abdullatif (2020). Genocide in Libya. Abingdon, UK
Italian Ethiopia: Sbacchi, Alberto (1978). Marcus, H. G. (ed.). „The Price of Empire: Towards an Enumeration of Italian Casualties in Ethiopia 1935–40“, Barker, A. J. (1968). The Civilising Mission: The Italo-Ethiopian War 1935–6. London: Cassell.
-These estimates err on the conservative side. They only include data explicitly mentioning death tolls.
-Colonies or events for which no proper data can be found are not included(or when only very small local numbers are mentioned)
-Most of the death toll in Ethiopia is due to the wars fought, and most of the deaths in Italian Libya are due to the Libyan genocide
-Officially speaking some of the areas seen here are not colonies, but occupied territory. Most sources do include them as (temporary) part of the Italian empire however.
Italian occupation of Greece has data – more than half a million starved, 70K Jews deported to extermination camps etc
Quite small actually. British imperialism killed tens of millions so to see „only“ a few hundred thousand (those quotation marks doing some hard work) is surprising. It makes me realize that the outrage over Ethiopia from Britain was a colossal sham – first declonize before complaining about others!
Missing Yugoslavia here. Thousands of civilians were murdered by the Italian army in Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro, and tens of thousands were placed in concentration camps.
Strangely there is no Wikipedia article of a supposed „Italian genocide of Ethiopia“, just a small mention in the [War Crimes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Italo-Ethiopian_War#War_crimes) section that „By all estimates, hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian civilians died as a result of the Italian invasion, which have been described by some historians as constituting genocide.“
This is why Wikipedia’s supposed NPOV is a joke.
Looks like Italians were too soft compared to other colonial powers. Their numbers will be in millions